Re: [xsl] Netscape Navigator not displaying emdash

Subject: Re: [xsl] Netscape Navigator not displaying emdash
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 22:51:10 GMT
> Netscape should accept &#8212; instead, but you have no way of
> forcing your XSLT processor to serialize em dash characters that way.

If I wasn't committed to upholding the virtues of pure side effect free
coding on this list, I'd mention that we routinely pass the output of
HTML producing stylesheets through a sed script which replaces &ndash
&mdash etc by their decimal numeric equivalents, for the sake of
netscape.

David
 

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